Skip to main content

tv   New Day Sunday  CNN  October 26, 2014 5:00am-5:31am PDT

5:00 am
kosik in for christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell, just shy of 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, coming up on 5:00 on the west coast. new battle lines being drawn in the political fight over containing ebola in the u.s. federal official tells cnn the cdc is "not happy" about those mandatory quarantines now in place in new york and new jersey. >> the governors of the states imposed 21-day isolation for health workers who are returning from hard-hit west african countries. illinois has a similar rule and now florida is jumping in, mandating twice daily monitoring for 21 days for anyone who is coming back from the outbreak zone. state officials say they're protecting public health, but enforcement, that is still an open question, and federal leaders worry the measures will wind up discouraging u.s. health workers from traveling to liberia, guinea and sierra leone. >> one nurse is slamming the way she was treated after landing in newark airport in new jersey, returning from her work in
5:01 am
sierra leone, her name is kaci hickox and writes "i sat alone in the isolation tent and thought of many colleagues who will return home to america and face the same ordeal. will they be made to feel like criminals and prisoners?" she added "my blood was taken and tested for ebola. it came back negative." new jersey governor chris christie told the associated press hickox was ill and apologized for her inconvenience. a new york physician being treated for ebola is back home. morgan dixon has been isolated at an east side hospital. she is still quarantined, and spencer is now reportedly entering a more serious phase of his illness. the doctor who was working in beginie received blood plasma from nancy writebol, one of the first two americans diagnosed with ebola. doctors say ebola patients often get worse before they recover. it was spencer's diagnosis last
5:02 am
week when he rode the subway, that sparked new quarantine policies in three states. alexandra field is outside bellevue hospital where spencer is in isolation. why are the states going that far to have that 21-day quarantine period for health workers coming back? >> reporter: look, the grns of these states saying they believe this is in the best interest of the public. you have a lot of officials on different levels who have to work together. the cdc sets the baseline guidelines and recommendations but the states can enact stronger protocols if they choose there-to-. health officials say there could be serious unintended consequences. mandatory 21-day quarantine or hospitalization already imposed by new york and new jersey and now illinois is causing heated debate on handling the possible spread of ebola, in an effort to ease public concerns the three states announced measures for
5:03 am
any airline passenger coming in from a west african nation hit hard by the deadly virus. mandatory quarantine would go into effect for travelers who had direct contact with an infected person. in a statement issued by the state of illinois, governor pat quinn says this protective measure is too important to be voluntary. we must take every step necessary to ensure the people of illinois are protected from potential exposure to the ebola virus. in new york, where the state is already dealing with an ebola case, grn overnor andrew comeau says health care workers are ready. >> the workers feel they have the training, gone through the equipment, gone through the protocols, we've drilled and drilled and drilled. >> reporter: the mandates are causing concern for the cdc and other infectious disease specialists. in a statement the cdc says health care workers volunteering to combat the ebola epidemic are heroes. the epidemic won't end without them. without their work the world
5:04 am
will be at increased risk. >> i have real concerns since i am somebody who is planning to go myself that this is really going to prevent some people from volunteering. we're already having difficulty recruiting health care workers to go over. if you institute even what frankly feel like punitive measures against people who are volunteering their time, taking real risks, it just doesn't really feel right and fair. >> we do not have a vaccine. we do not have a cure. we only have treatment, and one of the things to understand a virus constantly trying to mutate, constantly trying to find a new host to live on and as such quarantine is the only thing that breaks the link. >> reporter: while you have states taking their own steps here, tomorrow also marks the first day where the cdc is rolling out this new requirement and under this requirement you'll see people who are returning from the hot zone in west africa will now be actively monitored, that means for a 21-day period they'll be in close touch with state and local
5:05 am
health officials keeping an eye on them. in the case of dr. craig spencer hospitalized at bellevue he was self-monitoring, alison and victor, and detected that he had a temperature, a fever, when we le he alerted authorities who diagnosed him. >> seems to be the different policies according to the cdc and states causing a lot of confusion according to many people. alexandra field at new york's bellevue hospital, thanks. a new york city official calls the state's new ebola travel quarantine measures "a real stunner." arthur kapling head of the division of medal ethics at new york university. first, do you think quarantines like this work? >> well it's a great question because we're hearing a debate about should we or shouldn't we do them. we haven't talked about how we'll enforce them. what i mean is if a doctor says i'm not staying if my house, are we going to shoot him, taser him, have the cop trying to
5:06 am
tackle him, does he have to put on a moon suit first. there's a lot of talk how we'll do this or not do this. we haven't thought what it means to be in quarantine and how strictly would that be enforced. >> we come to you specificcally because you are head of the medical ethics division. these people trained, many of them work for hospitals and health care facilities. will they be paid for these 21 days? who is going to pay for their child care, who is going to bring them food? where will they be quarantined. have those things been taken care of and will they be taken care of ethically by their respective hospitals in. >> i'm glad you asked me. these are heroes, our front line troops in the fight against ebola. they've got to be over there, if you will, tamping down the effort in west africa. if we don't we'll be talking about this a year from now. i think we have to treat them as heroes, not as some kind of pariahs. let's set up a program to pay
5:07 am
them. they're not going to get paid for the 21 days now. many organizations don't have the money, some of the voluntary groups sending doctors and nurses over there. i'd like to hear the governor stand up and say we'll make this as easy as possible. we're not punishing you. we'll make sure you get good food, have a babysitter and make sure you get paid and get what you need. let's see this as a kind of decompression period, a kind of chance to recover. look, a lot of these people when they go to west africa, they're in terrible environments. you can't even describe how awful it is. would we treat our veterans coming back from afghanistan this way? i don't think so. >> after learning about thomas eric duncan's case was that the protocol in these three countries, sierra leone, guinea and liberia for protective gear more stringent than what the cdc was calling for in the u.s. let's ask you another question
5:08 am
extrapolating from new york and new jersey quarantines. if they treat ebola affected or ebola positive people overseas and are quarantined, should the people who are treating dr. spencer right now, should they also be quarantined for 21 days? it's not like this strain is any more likely to kill a person born in sierra leone than a person born in seattle. >> well it's a good question and i think the answer to it is first you're not going to get ebola unless you're really exposed to bodily fluids from someone, diarrhea, vomiting. when we heard about this doctor moving around new york city, you weren't going to get ebola from him unless you had sex with him or shared a toothbrush with him at his bowling alley or on the subway. those are the facts. we haven't seen ebola spread easily. those health care workers need to be monitored carefully, whether you're going to be able to isolate all of them and hold them, you need them to treat the next group of folks so i'll say careful temperature,
5:09 am
self-monitoring, keeping an eye on one another but that's our crack teams to manage ebola. i don't think you want to put them away for 21 days just to be safe that somehow or another they're not going to infect somebody. if they're not bleeding, not very sick, if they're not running high fevers they're not going to infect you or i. >> a lot of difficult questions as the u.s. deals withal this ebola crisis, and many of them are ethical. are that are kaplan, thank you for offering your insight. >> my pleasure. a white house sending a high representative to west africa, the u.s. am bassor now in guinea. we'll go live to the white house next. plus flowers line fences as the town mourns a school shooting in washington and the community is wondering why a popular teen went on a rampage. t with five vital nutrients. [ aniston ] because beautiful skin
5:10 am
goes with everything. aveeno®. naturally beautiful results™.
5:11 am
aveeno®. tastes better when marie cait's homemade.s dinner like chicken blanketed in golden breadcrumbs and wholesome sides with her signatures touches. marie callender's.
5:12 am
5:13 am
. u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha power, arrived in ebola-stricken guinea this morning. >> it's the first stop on her visit to the three countries in west africa that have been hardest hit by the deadly virus. cnn's erin mcpike joins us from the white house and candy crowley is also live in washington. let's start with you. what message does ambassad baba power hope to send during this
5:14 am
visit? >> reporter: first it's largely symbolic just like it was for president obama friday when he was seen hugging nurse nina pham in the oval office after she was cleared of ebola. they are trying to say health workers can go to the countries in west africa and got knot get ebola and trying to send the message to other countries that they, too, need to go to the region and get involved, that's a message that we've been hearing from secretary of state john kerry for quite some time now. but the biggest message is to destigmatize this and calm the hysteria. she said to nbc news before leaving essentially that new york and new jersey new rules are haphazard and not well thought out, and she also made this point, we cannot take measures here that are going to impact our ability to flood the zone. we have to find the right balance between addressing legitimate fears that people have and encouraging and incentivizing these heroes. to that end these new rules for
5:15 am
people who have been in those regions that new york and new jersey are imposing that they will have to be quarantined, the big question is, will samantha power also have to be quarantined when she comes back and i have reached out to the new york stock exchange gover r new york governor's office. once we get an answer we will get that to you >> what about skipping over the new federal policy that kicks in tomorrow requiring monitoring of travelers of ebola-affected areas. talk more about that. >> reporter: victor, when these travelers come back into the united states, they have a number of guidelines that they have to follow. the first is that they will have to check in with local health officials every single day. they also have to provide contact information for themselves as well as a friend or family member so health owe fishes can get in touch with them at any point during that 21-day period during travel and coordinate travel within the united states with these officials. >> thanks, erin. >> candy, let me move to you. it seems like the federal policy
5:16 am
is much less dramatic than the controversial new protocols in place that new jersey and new york have put in, illinois as well that require the 21-day quarantines. what y do you think that's the case? >> because you have this case of the doctor who came from guinea, goes to manhattan, turns up to have the ebola virus, and you have the grn overnor of new yor and governor of new jersey, two states aligned by jo geography and a lot of employees commingling across state lines and illinois following suit. now look, the federal doctors have said all along this sort of thing isn't needed. you have the nurse complaining, the nurse there was one nurse held under this new rule that went to a newark airport and is still in isolation. they simply feel, the governors, that the federal government has botched it, may not know exactly what is needed, and they felt
5:17 am
grns alwa governors always feel they know what's best for their state because they're closer to the ground, et cetera. in some ways you've seen governors before obviously not flaunt federal rules but go further than federal rules go. whether it stands because you've heard the argument against it, i think we'll if igthat out by next week. >> okay. >> candy crowley, erin mcpike, thank you both. stay here for "state of the union" with candy crowley, starts at the top of the hour, 9:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. and the community in mar marysville, washington s grieving after a tragic school shooting friday. susan candiotti is following the latest developments. susan? of a new engine. painstakingly engineered without compromise. to be more powerful... and, miraculously, unleash 46 mpg highway. an extravagance reserved for the privileged few.
5:18 am
until now. hey josh! new jetta? yeah. introducing lots of new. the new volkswagen jetta tdi clean diesel. isn't it time for german engineering? [ male announcer ] you wouldn't ignore signs of damage in your home. are you sure you're not ignoring them in your body? even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. and if you ignore the signs, the more debilitating your symptoms could become. learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert advice tool at crohnsandcolitis.com. and then speak with your gastroenterologist. feet...tiptoeing. better things than the pain, stiffness, and joint damage of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist
5:19 am
decide on a biologic, ask if xeljanz is right for you. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz can relieve ra symptoms, and help stop further joint damage. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don't start xeljanz if you have any infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz and routinely check certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you have been to a region where fungal infections are common, and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take. one pill, twice daily, xeljanz can reduce ra pain and help stop further joint damage, even without methotrexate. ask about xeljanz.
5:20 am
into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards.
5:21 am
a community in washington is trying to come to terms with the horrifying shooting at a marysville high school. we know that two of the victims were can you seeins of the shooter, jaylen fryberg, and the other three victims were girls,
5:22 am
one was killed, and two are in critical condition in the hospital. susan candiotti joins us live from everett now. susan, what have you learned about the shooter's relationship with his cousins? are we getting any more clues as to what maybe the motive was behind this? >> reporter: hi, alison. it's hard to say what the motive was at this time. investigators, if they know what it is, they're not saying so at the moment. but certainly one of the things that's most troubling is a grandfather of two of the young men who were critically injured says that they are cousins of the shooter, and can't figure out for the life of him why he would have shot them. he said they were all very close to each other. they always hung out together. they even went to a dance recently where the young man, the shooter, had been named the ho homecoming prince, so he does say that he forgives the shooter for what happened, but no one can understand this. we don't know whether this might have had something to do for
5:23 am
example with the recent suspension from school or a reported breakup with a girlfriend. for now, at church services today, everyone will be concentrating on the victims in this shooting, and also families are trying to comfort their own children about what happened. here's what the mayor told me about that. it. >> i put my arms around him and hugged him because i hadn't done that on their way out the door and you have some families their kids aren't coming home. you want to love on them and hug them comes to mind. and say hey if if you need something to talk about, don't hold it in and talk to us about it. >> reporter: and the school will remain closed this week, all activities also have been canceled as everyone does try to with this.ps with this. alison? >> and susan, we have heard about a teacher who was at the school at the time was being hailed a hero, what she apparently did was atertempt to
5:24 am
stop the shooter. do you have any more details? >> reporter: not really. police aren't saying much about it. we reached out to the teacher who did try to intervene in some way, however, she told us she didn't wish to talk about anything at this time. however, she issued a statement via twitter and through the school district in which she thanks everyone for their support and is asking for privacy for the time being. alison? >> all right, susan candiotti, thank you. more isis clashes in the key town of kobani. are fighters crossing the border between syria and turkey to combat this isis siege? we'll have the latest in the battle against those islamist militants, next. keeping a billion customers a year flying, means keeping seven billion transactions flowing. and when weather hits, it's data mayhem. but airlines running hp end-to-end solutions are always calm during a storm. so if your business deals with the unexpected,
5:25 am
hp big data and cloud solutions make sure you always know what's coming - and are ready for it. make it matter. i had tried to do it in the past.ng with chantix. i hadn't been successful. quitting smoking this time was different because i talked to my doctor and i... i got a prescription for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it was important to me that chantix was a non-nicotine pill. the fact that it reduced the urge to smoke helped me get that confidence that i could do it. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. use caution when driving or operating machinery.
5:26 am
common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i am very proud. i love myself as a nonsmoker. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. i have a cold. i took nyquil but i'm still stuffed up. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. really? alka-seltzer plus night rushes relief to eight symptoms of a full blown cold including your stuffy nose. (breath of relief) oh, what a relief it is. thanks. anytime.
5:27 am
♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing good around ♪ ♪ turn around, barry
5:28 am
♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ [ female announcer ] fiber one. welcome back to "new day." let's get to your headlines now, a nurse being held in quarantine in new jersey says she was left in isolation for hours when she arrived at newark liberty international airport. >> writing in "the dallas morning news" kaci hickox says she's scared how other health care workers who returned from the u.s. after caring for ebola patients in west africa will be treated. owe fishes in new york, new jersey and illinois say what they're trying to do is protect public health. attorney general eric holder says the federal government will now recognize same-sex married couples in six more states bringing the total to 32 plus the district of columbia. this follows the supreme court's decision to decline to hear any pending cases on the issue. the latest six are alaska,
5:29 am
arizona, idaho, north carolina, west virginia, and wyoming. spacex's dragger spaceship successfully landed in the pacific ocean. the unmanned spacecraft had been on a four-week resupply mission to the international space station t brought back potentially ground-breaking experiments on how humans can survive in long duration space flight. up to 50 homes in hawaii are facing the possibility of forced evacuation because of lava from the kilauea volcano. hawaii has asked for a presidential disaster declaration. the 2,000-degree lava threatens to destroy roads, homes and schools, amazing. thanks for starting your morning with us. >> "inside politics" with john king starts right now. not on tape, let's get it right.
5:30 am
good morning, we're nine days to the midterm election and control of the senate hinges on eight or nine senate races that are dead heats entering the final week. up in new hampshire jeanne shaheen democratic incumbent, former massachusetts governor scott brown is trying to be strong on the focus of ebola. >> we don't need people fear mongering about this issue, we don't people who don't have medical expertise trying to get people concerned about what we've got to do to respond. >> she calls it fear mongering. i call it rational fear as well as the citizens of new hampshire and this country have a rational fear that this is real. >> another big race in iowa, joanie ernst is the republican candidate and bruce bray the democrat. she had a team about cast rating hogs as a child and closing back on that farm. >> it's a mess, dirty, noisy, and it stinks. not this

159 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on